In the many years that I have been riding a bicycle in bike lanes, I have had to share them with a lot of things.  From rickshaws, to inline skaters, to joggers…oh yeah cars and trucks and those other things, all sorts of things.

I have become pretty tolerant to all forms of these transportations.  I still give the stink eye to cars inline skaters in the bike lane, but for the most part I have made my peace with them.

I have discovered that the things I put my hands on turn and I can navigate around most obstacles, except for what I came across this morning. 

I have taken to morning rides on my bike before I go to work.  It’s about a 20km ride that takes around an hour.  Part of the route is over the train tracks on the Sarourin bridge. This morning I almost ran over some horse poo-poo.

This could have been a dangerous and disgusting situation.  Nothing worse than wiping out on some manure.  Well I only know one group of people who ride horses in the city and that be the police.

I remember one time asking a cop who cleaned up after their horses when they crapped on the road.  He looked down at me from his mount, with disdain in his voice he told me, ‘that’s what city works is for.”

Well city works is not doing its job and the police are crapping in bike lanes, so isn’t time that we retired these horses.  The only time they are used for anything is to beat on protestors.  Do we really need horses in an urban environment now that we have police who can actually ride bikes?

With cuts to the city budget, the city can’t afford to clean up after the cops, so maybe we should get the horses to wear diapers, so they can stop crapping in the bike lanes.  There is enough to worry about.